Five years of Taliban rule: Survival is not the same as stabilityThe Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan for five years. Mounting domestic pressures include poverty and refugee returns. Internal...
Pakistan militants' 'double tap' strategy turns rescue missions into deadly trapsMilitant groups in Pakistan are using a double tap strategy against security personnel. This tactic involves an initial attack followed by ...
A suicide bomber strikes an anti-militant rally in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 14A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an anti-militant rally in Pakistan. The attack killed at least fourteen people, including several p...
Pakistan: 11 officers and 15 attackers dead during raid on a police postEleven people died after militants attacked a police post in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Security forces engaged in a gunbattle...
Militant attack kills 15 at security check post in north-west Pakistan: MilitaryMilitants attacked a security check post in Pakistan, killing fifteen people. Twelve soldiers, two police officers, and one government offi...
Pakistan rejects Amnesty call for war crimes probe into Kabul airstrikePakistan rejected Amnesty International's call for an investigation into a recent airstrike. The rights group alleged the strike on a drug ...
Afghanistan-backed plot behind Karachi Rangers attack: PakistanPakistan's Sindh Home Minister stated terrorists attacking a rangers compound had Afghan backing. Investigations concluded planning and tra...
Pakistan’s own monster: TTP among deadliest terror groups after 90% spike in killingsPakistan is witnessing a sharp increase in terrorism-related deaths, with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emerging as one of the deadliest ...
TTP militants attack security convoy in northwest Pakistan; kill 6 soldiersThe attack occurred in the Asman Manza area of the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan when armed TTP militants opened f...
Banned TTP still using Afghan soil to attack Pakistan: Pakistan Defence Minister AsifAsif's remarks come as Pakistan has witnessed a surge in TTP violence since peace talks between the militant group and the government began...
Why Pakistan’s security situation keeps worseningSince the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, Islamist terror groups, especially TTP, have increased violence in Pakistan. Impo...
What's behind the Pakistani Taliban's insurgency?Angered by Pakistan's cooperation with Washington in the war on terrorism, the TTP was officially set up by Pakistani militants in 2007 whe...
Pakistan silently urges Afghan Taliban to neutralise threat posed by TTP terroristsHowever, it has emerged from the efforts so far that the interim government in Kabul still sticks to its earlier stance that the only way t...
View: Pakistan’s duplicity will inspire home-grown terroristsA major reason why Pakistan has been facing increasing terrorist attacks inside the country is its continued pursuit of duplicity in the fi...
Pakistan could reconsider its strategy for dealing with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers: Bilawal Bhutto-ZardariSeparately, in his address to a commemoration event to honour the victims of the December 16, 2014, terrorist attack on the Army Public Sch...
Pakistan government issues nationwide alert amid heightened risk of terror attacks by TTPThe federal government said it had learnt that the TTP high command met recently in Paktika, Afghanistan, to discuss the deadlock in peace ...
Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up in Pakistan; 3 killed, 20 injuredThe attack targeted a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost on the Mastung road in Quetta, the provincial capital, Deputy Inspector General of Quet...